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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one of the huge machine shops, where many of the 26,000 workers in the yard fashion metal parts for the ships under construction for the Navy. Heavy anchor chains are among the parts produced here, and powerful presses are used in the various machining operations

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Shipbuilding (Norfolk Navy Yard). This is one of the huge machine shops, where many of the 26,000 workers in the yard fashion metal parts for the ships under construction for the Navy. Heavy anchor chains are among the parts produced here, and powerful presses are used in the various machining operations

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Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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01/01/1941

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Palmer, Alfred T., photographer

United States. Office of War Information.

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Meadowbrook, 36.91348, -76.30355

Google Map of 36.9134808, -76.3035527

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